The One Good Thing About Burqas from Planck's Constant

Before I show you the one good thing about burqas, I want to say something about feminists in America. We have all noticed how the feminist movement consistently ignores Muslim atrocities against women.

Yeah sure, on every International Women's Day they rail against human rights violations against women taking place all over the world, but significantly they consistently fail to single out Muslims as the major perpetrators of those violations. In a recent press release they did mention the sexual assault in Egypt, but you will never read the words Islam or Muslim in any of their condemnations ¹.

I have a theory to explain their reluctance to blame Muslims for the way women are treated in Islamic societies. Take the wearing of the burqa for example. Feminists are loath to condemn the practice because to do so would be to advocate that women should be able to wear bikinis if they wished to. But feminists do not want women to wear bikinis; in fact, they have quite Talibanic views on the matter (the article is from 2001, but the sentiments have not changed):

EquityFeminism, Are Bikinis Just as Bad as Burkas?
In an op-ed for the Boston Globe historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg and women's health advocate Jacquelyn Jackson argue that while women in Afghanistan are celebrating the demise of the Taliban by removing their burkas, women in the United States have yet to fully realize how oppressed they are by the wearing bikinis and other cultural phenomenon that distort women's body images.

So why should the National Organization for Women worry about the oppression of women in Muslim societies when American women are equally oppressed? Oh really? Have you been to any American beach lately? Is every female wearing a skimpy bikini? Is anyone whipped for failing to undress properly?

Of course I know that women are not treated equally as men in our society and that we still have some way to go to reach true equality between the sexes; but please, there is no comparison between how women are treated by Muslim men and how they are treated by American men.

I know that you have been waiting to hear about the one good thing about Burqas. First, I have to ask you to visualize that disgusting Jew-hater and supporter of Hezbollah, Helen Thomas. Here is a reminder in case you have forgotten:

disgusting Jew-hater and supporter of Hezbollah, Helen Thomas

Here she is wearing a burqa:

Now isn't that much better?

A tip of the turban Hat Tip to Miriam's Ideas.

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National Organization for Women, NOW Calls for End to the "War on Women"
March 8, 2011
Today we celebrate International Women's Day, exactly 100 years after it was first established. Women have made incredible strides in that time -- both in the United States and around the globe. We cheer these advancements and thank the feminist activists whose dedication and fearlessness made them possible. At the same time, we are under no illusion about the road ahead, and we take this occasion to reaffirm our pledge that we will win full equality for all women.

The challenges before us are extraordinary. Many countries and cultures still view and treat women as second-class citizens. Human rights violations against women and girls take place in virtually every society. The global business of sex trafficking exploits millions of girls and women each year. In some parts of the world, rape is commonly used as a weapon of war. Even at one of the most triumphant moments in recent history -- the successful uprising in Egypt -- a woman reporter was targeted by a gang of men for a brutal sexual assault.